Ellerman Bombs at high resolution: I. Morphological evidence for photospheric reconnection

Details Ellerman Bombs at high resolution: I. Morphological evidence for photospheric reconnection Ellerman Bombs at high resolution: I. Morphological evidence for photospheric reconnection

2011-05-20

arxiv.org/abs/1105.4008v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

13pages, 10 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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High-resolution imaging-spectroscopy movies of solar active region NOAA 10998 obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope show very bright, rapidly flickering, flame-like features that appear intermittently in the wings of the Balmer H-alpha line in a region with moat flows and likely some flux emergence. They show up at regular H-alpha blue-wing bright points that outline magnetic network, but flare upward with much larger brightness and distinct "jet" morphology seen from aside in the limbward view of these movies. We classify these features as Ellerman bombs and present a morphological study of their appearance at the unprecedented spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution of these observations. The bombs appear along magnetic network with footpoint extents up to 900km. They show apparent travel away from the spot along the pre-existing network at speeds of about 1 km/s. The bombs flare repetitively with much rapid variation at time scales of seconds only, in the form of upward jet-shaped brightness features. These reach heights of 600-1200km and tend to show blueshifts; some show bi-directional Doppler signature, and some seem accompanied with an H-alpha surge. They are not seen in the core of H-alpha due to shielding by overlying chromospheric fibrils. The network where they originate has normal properties. The morphology of these jets strongly supports deep-seated photospheric reconnection of emergent or moat-driven magnetic flux with pre-existing strong vertical network fields as the mechanism underlying the Ellerman bomb phenomenon.

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